Placer Mining Claims For Sale

Serpent's Tail
Placer Mining Claim

±40 Acres

Price: SOLD

This is a great claim on the historically rich North Fork of the Feather River where large gold nuggets are still being found. The river runs strong all year with annual floods bringing in new gold every year.

Bring the whole family and enjoy hiking, fishing, as well as finding your fortune! Opportunites abound for panning, sluicing, metal detecting, and highbanking. Summertime temperatures here range from night time lows in the 50s to day time highs in the 80s to 90s. The Queen Lily Campground, Gansner Bar Campground, and North Fork Campground are right down the road that accommodates trailers, RV's, and tent camping. Both campgrounds have sites that are right along the Feather River.

  • Year round access.
  • 2wd access - can pull vehicle up to creek.
  • Easy walk down to river.
  • Two campsites on claim.
  • Local gravels on bedrock.
  • Large boulders.
  • Downed trees, tree roots, grass clumps, and logs.
  • Gravel deposits.
  • Taling piles, pools, and ponds.
  • Some remnant terraces.
  • Medium to deep water.
  • Good fishing.
  • Mining level: Recreational to intermediate.
  • Quiet and safe area; very beautiful.
  • Children and senior friendly - fun for all!
  • Quincy is 30 miles away with lodging, restaurants, grocery stores, hardware store, and gasoline facilities.

Historically in the Seneca (Butt Valley) Mining District, gold has been produced from rich placer diggings in gravels of both recent and ancient streams. A few small deposits of ancient auriferous gravel have been successfully mined in this district. Deposits of auriferous gravel occur in the recent beds of the North Fork Feather River, the gravel is rich in gold and has been targeted by miners since the Gold Rush. At some locations the gravel has been worked over a number of times and it is still being worked and producing large amounts of gold.

By the disintegration of the auriferous slates of the Cedar and Calaveras formations in the area, free gold is present in the hillsides and has been concentrating in the creeks that drain them. In 2009 Advanced Geologic conducted a 4 - 5 yard test at a nearby location and recovered 12.6 grams of gold! Other prospectors using metal detectors have also recovered nuggets from the hillsides.

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Goggle Map It!
Pinpoint is on Caribou Road @ the Southwest Corner Boundary.

Estimated GPS Coordinates:
Please adjust GPS to the following Datum & Coordinate display:
Datum: NAD83/WGS84
Coordinates: UTM
Zone 10

Easting
Northing
Elevation
Northeast Corner Boundary:
653555mE
4436040mN
2903 ft.
Northwest Corner Boundary:
653265mE
4436034mN
2859 ft.
Upper Western Corner:
653173mE
4435840mN
2889 ft.
Lower Western Corner:
652966mE
4435735mN
2861 ft.
Caribou Road @ Southwest Corner Boundary
652968mE
4435624mN
2615 ft.
Southeast Corner Boundary:
653563mE
4435636mN
3189 ft.
Caribou Road @ North Fork Feather River @ Northern Boundary:
653433mE
4436038mN
2673 ft.

Standard Information
The Serpent's Tail placer mining claim in Plumas County is a non-patented federal mining claim. Fees are current and you will need to file appropriate paperwork to hold the property every year thereafter. Annual tax assessment on the property is based on claim value.

BLM Fees & Advanced Geologic Fees

Upon payment, the mineral claim will be transferred via a notarized Quitclaim notice filed in your name with Plumas County and the BLM. Limited payment terms and conditions are available; information available on request.

Advanced Geologic has an exceptional annual claim paperwork filing service that will maintain your annual filings for any claim in the United States. Advanced Geologic reminds you that you MUST file annual notices with both the county in which the claim is located AND with the Bureau of Land Management by the appropriate dates. There are NO exceptions and errors will lead to the loss of your claim! Are your claims filed correctly?

Advanced Geologic is a professional geologic consulting firm located in Chester, California. We not only sell quality mining claims, but we also help people work their claims. Our experience in resource evaluations, compliance and permitting and claim portfolio management allows our clients and buyers to go for the GOLD.

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